Thursday, February 27, 2014

The National Center for
Advocacy Studies (NCAS) is organizing a Capacity Building Programme
on People-Centred Advocacy from 27-29 March, 2014 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
NCAS is a social change resource centre that aims at promoting and
strengthening rights-based people-centred advocacy. It endeavors to create
enabling conditions for people’s empowerment at the grass-roots level as well
as to facilitate efforts for human rights, social justice and transparent and
accountable governance. It primarily provides support to various grass-root
initiatives and people’s movements by way of capacity building, campaign and
media support, and research & documentation. NCAS, over the last two
decades, has conducted around 250 capacity building workshops for organsiations
in India and in some other South Asian countries.

The advocacy environment in the
country has undergone tremendous changes in recent years. A fresh and updated
understanding on concept and practice of People-Centred Advocacy is a felt need
in these changed circumstances. NCAS is organising a three-day workshop for
Odisha-based organisations. On the third day of the programme i.e. on 29th March,
a discussion will be held on developmental schemes and institutions of
governance for adivasis in Odisha. Details of the workshop are as follows:

Objectives of the Programme

-To facilitate
learning process on People-Centred Advocacy and the concept and practice of
Advocacy in India

-To understand the
relationship between power, politics and policy in order to empower people and
advocate a pro-people policy environment

-To understand the
role of the institutions of governance and of the media in advancing the rights
of the marginalised

This workshop is intended for the
activists of people’s organizations, and civil society groups and therefore
participation in the workshop is by prior registration only. We request all
interested to send in their registration applications by March 5, 2014.

How to apply

-Send a note about
your experiences on Advocacy (English or Odia)

-Send a registration
fee of Rs, 1000 in the name of National Centre For Advocacy
Studies, ( for funding and donor agencies the amount is Rs. 3000)

-No Registration Fee
is required for the activists working with people’s organization.

Please note:

Last of receiving applications is March 5, 2014

Only shortlisted candidates will be informed and invited for the
workshop.